On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Christine Aguila
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Eric: I found this video on importing into Lightroom 3.
> http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-lightroom-3/be-organized/ I just watched
> it and it's good. I don't know if you have verision 3 or 2.7; I have 2.7.
> The video is 16 minutes long. HTH. Cheers, Christine
She does a good job of covering the basic operations for Lr 3 in that
video. I see she prefers to use a "by category" type of file
organization. (There seems little point to me for a "by camera model"
organization schema since you can always discover that inside
Lightroom using the metadata filters.)
Regards the structure of the image file repository ("where to put them
on disk"), I wrote up the way I do it and posted it as a pdf some time
ago: http://www.gdgphoto.com see "07 - Image File Organization and
Naming Notes".
Regards whether to use Lr to move the files to the repository or
whether to do that manually first and then just add them, well, that
depends on what I need to do for a specific camera. Right now, with
the E-1, L1 and G1 bodies, I have Lr3 do the whole process of moving
them to the working repository, making backup copies on an external
drive, renaming them and converting them to DNG in one go. It saves a
lot of time and reduces the possibility I make a mistake and put them
in the wrong place.
For the E-5, since it is not yet officially supported by Lr, I have to
do a manual process of moving them to the backup archive, copying them
to a temporary location, changing the model in the EXIF data to "E-30"
and then use Lr to move them into the right place in the image file
repository. That works too, but I can't wait for Lr to fully support
the E-5 as it is prone to more human error.
--
Godfrey
godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com
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